Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE THE DOCKS
844-1/11/345 Fox's Malthouse
12/03/73
(Formerly Listed as:
THE DOCKS
Alexandra Kiln)

GV II

Malthouse on the south side of Alexandra Warehouse. 1888. By
JP Moore of Gloucester, architect, for SH Fox, corn merchant,
incorporated in 1889 as Fox Clinch and Company, corn merchants
and millers. Originally operated in conjunction with Alexandra
Warehouse (qv). Red brick, slate roofs, timber barge and eaves
boards. Comprises a rectangular store with end-gables, and on
the east side the kilns in a rectangular block covered by two
steeply pitched and parallel hipped roofs.
EXTERIOR: store of four storeys and loft; in the centre of
each gable-end wall a hoist door opening flanked by a window
on each floor, all with brick cambered arched heads, and on
the west side to each floor three similar windows. West side
divided into five bays with four projecting brick pilasters; 3
windows each floor to centre bays; 2 windows and 2 doors at
ground floor; additional window to first floor right. South
wall as north but with fire escape. Various random windows to
north and south kiln walls.
INTERIOR: not inspected. The kiln block believed to contain
four kilns with wire drying floors; machinery was worked by an
engine house that once adjoined Alexandra Warehouse (qv) but
has since been demolished. Original drawings in
Gloucestershire Records Office D2460 Drawings 1-D.
(Conway-Jones H: Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History:
Gloucester: 1984-: 170; Original Drawings in Gloucestershire
Records Office: D2460 Drawings 1-D).

Listing NGR: SO8258918201

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538119

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